I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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